From reading (and writing) entertainment news, it sure can seem like the same 10 or so actors get cast in seemingly every motion picture. It now seems safe to add Matt Smith to that list. Smith became a geek god playing Doctor Who’s The Doctor, a medical professional with an enduring love for the bass playing of John Entwistle (I’m guessing), and has subsequently leveraged his popularity with a bevy of nerd-friendly projects. A bevy, I tells ya!

Smith will soon be starring as Mr. Collins in Burr Steers’ film version of Pride And Prejudice And Zombies, a thing that is apparently still happening, and will be among the actors headlining the rage-inducingly titled Terminator: Genisys. But that wasn’t good enough for the nerds of the world, apparently, because now Smith is doubling up with yet another movie about the non-dead fighting the undead: Patient Zero.

Deadline reports that Smith will star opposite Natalie Dormer in what’s described as a film that “takes place in a post-outbreak zombie apocalypse and follows the adventures of one man who has the unique ability to speak with the undead and who hopes to use his gift to discover a cure for the plague and his infected wife.”

Wow, that sounds a lot like the premise for Paranorman, and also Doctor Doolittle, as well as this spec script I’m writing that takes place in a post-outbreak zombie apocalypse and follows the adventures of one man who has the unique ability to speak with the undead and who hopes to use his gift to discover a cure for the plague and his infected wife that I now realize may not have a future.

Patient Zero will be directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky from a script by Mike Le. No release date has been set.